#and i hope i rip your heart out

[greenchrysanthemum20]

Permanent Changes to Brain Chemistry (Or, This isn't the Genre you Think it is)

Hmmm, been thinking about Coffee Theory lately, and also the new wave of Aziraphale had a plan and was trying to communicate in Secret Code to Crowley but Crowley didn't get the part where it was in fact a code..... I have to wonder as someone who has been around the fandom block once or twice, I think both of these theories come from the same place: The Sherlock Hiatus. Yes, folks, we are in the new rendition of The Hiatus™. It feels weird to call it that, as Good Omens is not a show that regularly airs but that fact that we will be in a drought of Canon from August 2023 to 2026 at probably the soonest means that we are in fact in A Hiatus Season. Well, what the fuck does Sherlock have to do with Good Omens ??

I'm glad you asked! My New Thought of the week is that the Sherlock Hiatus permanently changed the brain chemistry on this website, or at least of fans of a certain stripe. Sherlock was a show that I obsessed over (rather late to the game, in 2017), and so did many others. With the cliffhanger of Sherlock's jump at the end of season 2, there was nothing for fans to do but theorize and theorize and theorize.

Sherlock was also a show that actively hated its queer legacy, and by extension, its fandom (looking at you, Steven Moffat). This is getting long so my point is, I think the off-beat super complex theories about GO and the final fifteen come from a place of being actively cat-fished by Sherlock, years ago. I mean, Sherlock S3E1 basically took all of fans' theories, tore them to shreds, spit on them, lit them on fire, and then presented it's own, Even More Crackpot theory as to how Sherlock survived??? The whiplash, maaaan.

So fans, having gone through All Of That, with Sherlock, have now come to almost expect mysteries in fannish shows to be overly complicated. And just, that isn't how Good Omens works?? Like, Neil and the rest of the cast and crew Do Love the fandom, and want to tell a story that is Doing Right by the fans. (Dottie and Sadie in Neil's asks are hard not to swing as the products of a good natured uncle winking and thumbing his nose at you). And second, I think these elaborate theories mistake the final fifteen as being part of a mystery show when in reality the final fifteen are part of a tragedy. Aziraphale is Hamlet. He is a tragic hero. We are to root for him, despite his flaws, or even because of them. It is because of Aziraphale's altruism that he makes the choices that he does. Altruism is Aziraphale's Hamartia, his tragic flaw.

He may be being played by Metatron, but because of who he is as a character, as a guardian and protector, Aziraphale cannot walk away from the chance to protect the earth and make things better in heaven without sacrificing a large part of his values and Who He Is. Metatron knows that Aziraphale is altruistic, as a constant, but that that altruism can be twisted and led astray.

In a tragedy, there is a point called Peripeteia, which means the point in which the tragic hero's flaw condemns them to a certain course of action. This is what we see Aziraphale go through in the final fifteen.

He is offered a choice, and he makes a choice, and in the end, it isn't a choice. Looking at GO through the lens of a tragedy, all of those statement can coexist, and they each have equal weight.

Crowley, on the other hand, is Orpheus. Don't look back. You are leaving, you are on your way out the door, you can sense her presence behind you. Don't look back. The cavern grows darker, the threat looms larger, you talk into the echoes, and every time you hear her reply, you cannot tell how far away she is from you. Don't look back.

You look back. You kiss him, furiously, in a bookshop. You have looked. She is taken from you. Crowley knew that that kiss was never going to have worked. But he needed to kiss Aziraphale anyway. He never could have told Aziraphale before the Metatron showed up that he loved him. (Can one blame Orpheus, for being a plaything to the muses?) (Can one escape a Hell that doesn't send Strongly Worded letters?)

You have to look. You have to love her. You have to let her know you love her, even as you cannot have her.

Obviously, Good Omens as a whole isn't a tragedy, but the final fifteen of Season 2 are one, and I think we have a lot to learn from treating them as such.

#good omens #good omens meta #meta #final 15 good omens #the final 15 #the final fifteen #chrysanthemum writes meta #tragedy #shakespeare #hamlet #orpheus #orpheus and eurydice #hamartia #peripeteia #sherlock #sherlock bbc #steven moffat(derogatory) #hiatus #the sherlock hiatus #sherlock hiatus #brain chemistry #hoo boy I switched from #thoughts in the bath #to this is a literature essay #to no this is actually experimental literature #all in the span of one meta post #anyway I hope this is coherent #and i hope i rip your heart out #signed an official angst goblin #chrysanthemum

[prince-peachie]

“Something in the orange tells me we’re not done”

#please the song is so Andreil coded #now I wanna draw the line that goes #but when you place your head between my collar and jaw #I don’t know much but there’s no weight at all #like??? #rip my heart out and then try to jam it back in #i’m gonna cry #anyway I hope people like this version of this artwork #I’m not great at backgrounds and lighting #but! #I’m trying #aftg #all for the game #neil josten #andriel #andrew minyard #my art

[tragicotps]

Young Asriel x Marisa > Based on the fic Trials (and errors) by @freuleinanna

[Exiled from the public's eye, young Marisa Coulter is preparing to go and stand trial for adultery. On the other side of Oxford, young lord Asriel Belacqua is preparing to go and stand trial for murder.

A lot has been said about how 'as soon as they met, they fell in love'. That is exactly what made the rest of it so hard.]

#masriel #asriel x marisa #SORRY OP I COULDN'T RESIST #!! #i made you a gifSEt #mainly chapter 3 cause of reasonS 💙 #this is less angsty than the actual fic but its STill nicE to have extra VISuals #i love your writing #hope you won't rip my heart out too much in the next chapters 🥺🥺 #i have a love/hate relationship with the drama 🥲 #asriel belacqua #marisa coulter #his dark materials #hdm fic #fanfic #trials (and errors) #gonna need to read some soft masriel now #mine #au #masriel au

[rosie-kairi]

Thinking about how messed up the whole bodysnatching thing is. Like, presumably Bragi was already a keyblade wielder/student by the time he got Luxu'd. Did anyone notice something was a bit off about him after it happened? Also, he's like 16-ish years old (I assume), how long has he been possessed? Sorry I'm weirdly caught up on this for some reason.

#Rosie rambles #khdr spoilers #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts dark road #khdr #kh bragi #bragi #kh luxu #luxu #Imagine you're like. 15 years old minding your own business out for a walk when suddenly this weird person grabs you #Drags you into an alley where no one could see you #And like rips your soul put of your body and replaces it with his (idk how this works I'm just making this up) #Effectively killing you as a person #And walks around with your face like nothing is wrong #Are luxu's vessels at all conscious afterwards? #I hope not. Solely bc that'd be a little to fucked up #Being amuck in your own body unable to do anything as this thing lives your life for you

[l0vergirls]

your favourite fictional character having a canon love interest makes for some good reader insert angst

#because theyre basically written in the stars while you have to stand by and watch #all you can do is wait until your love for them dies down #but it never does because how can you ever get over them? the love of your life? #if there's a love triangle going on #you know deep in your gut it wont be you in the end #but it never hurts to hope #(it feels like your heart is being ripped out of your chest and squeezed in front of you) #you allow yourself to indulge in them before they realise you arent what they want #that you arent what they need #because you'll never get a chance like this again #i will not write angst here #i love happy endings so i will not be the one 🙅🏻‍♀️ #well really idk depends how i feel #— yan speaks.

[abutterflyobsession]

well the new trigun is such light-hearted fun and not at all emotionally devastating amiright

#a butterfly obsesses #it's been too many years/ #I forgot that it's not a true trigun experience if your heart isn't ripped out and put in a blender #I can't wait for season two I hope Vash is absolutely unhinged #see trigun trending and am instantly slammed back to my teenagerhood #trigun stampede/ #also: he really do be having millions of knives the advertising is not false #hundreds spoons XD

[g3othermal3scapism]

if ur making a collection of good dance scenes in cinema and u dont include rain man, jojo rabbit, or moonrise kingdom, you will start to cough in 2 days.

#MORE PEOPLE SHOULD TALK ABOUT RAIN MAN #I WAS A MESS AFTER THIS MOVIE BRO #THEM DANCING TOGETHER????? OH MY GOD #THAT SCENE I THINK ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME #the jojo rabbit dancing scene. what if i kms #its so amazing #so perfectly awkward and beautiful and youthful and so ??? free???? more than anything else #jojo rabbit rips your heart out and crushes it #then carefully stitched it back up and hands it to you and gently tells you that its going to be okay and theres still hope for the world #theres so much hope even in the most hopeless situations #THINGS WILL GET BETTER!!!!!!!! #THEY WILL!!!!!!!!!!! #i love that dancing in movies has become such a symbol of freedom #and hope and youth #its such a human way to express your emotions #youre feeling really happy? youre listening to music you like and youre feeling amazing? #flair your arms!!!!! twirl around!!!!! jump up and down!!!!!!!!! #its so beautiful to me #i should make another post about the rain man dance scene #im running out of space #movies #rain man #jojo rabbit #dancing in movies

[tired-bisexual-brainrot]

“and when i was younger, i knew a boy and boy. best friends with each other, but always wished they were more. ‘cause they loves one another, but never discovered, ‘cause they were too afraid of what they’d say. moved to different states.” - the story, conan gray

guys, it’s byler coded.

#stranger things #byler #mike wheeler #will byers #screaming crying sliding down a wall #this is painful #byler is endgame #byler is requited #stranger things season 4 #conan gray #i found another song for you sick fucks to make edits to #yk the edits that rip our hearts out #and stomp on them #you evil evil bitches #never stop making the angsty edits tho #we’re all sad and want to feel something #just know i hope that both sides of your pillow are warm when you go to sleep tho

[koukaaa-descent]

I am so so sick and I woke up thinking about th intimacy between th flesh and the machine. Please send rmlethal company asks. )clawing at youre ankels) Pleaaase .,.. my head hurts but I WILL get to them. I Will. I have 0 asks . I need sustenance or else I die ..,…

#lethal company #requests open #hoping I am one day known as the bitch whfo rips your heart out

[bluespiritfire]

Not me sobbing like a little bitch over Mandricardo in Atlantis!

#FGO #I was not emotionally prepared AT ALL #the writers really did a great job of nourishing your heart and then just RIPPING IT RIGHT OUT #they made it so that we cry about Orion but his farewell didn't hit nearly as hard #ALSO it REALLY doesn't help that I'm listening to Join Me In Death by Avalanche Effect! #I hope they animate Atlantis Lostbelt because I want to see AMVs with this song #now i have to go cry some more

[lailuhhh]

2, 7, and 16 for the fic asks please!

2. Do you plan each chapter ahead or write as you go?

Definitely do not plan ahead lol. Mostly I just write until my brain goes okay that looks good and then it’s like BUT what if THIS also happened?? Then there’s the besties who are like what if this ALSO happened??? And then it’s peer pressure the best idea I’ve ever had to continue something

7. How do you choose which POV to write from?

Honestly?? It kinda feels subconscious from switching view to view. Like in one I’m working on switched POV three times already and it’s not even 1.5k words like omg I did not mean to do that, but reading it and it flows so nicely

16. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

Okay okay okay so there’s currently the Mac and the oh no very bad terrible not good day which is basically crack taken seriously of Mac proving Murphy’s law where bad things just happen to him

And then there’s the one titled brbcrying which is big oh no Mac is not doing Good™️ at all and there’s lots of feelings and Mac just being Tired™️ and Jack trying his damnedest to help AND it’s a sandbox fic

But there’s like 14 ideas I have written down that I’ve yet to write anything for

Ask me something

#I’m excited for the crack fic because it’s kinda different from my regular style #and I’m excited for brbcrying because I’m hoping it’ll rip your hearts out :) #lailuh speaks #ask #answer #hello thank you i love you #ask game #appalachianapologies #ALSO JOKING ABOUT PEER PRESSURE I LOVE WHEN YOU PUT CONTINUATION IDEAS IN MY HEAD

[theinfinitedivides]

'start that music / in the name of the Lord' exactly what is Bollywood coming to

#film: tiger 3 #ek tha tiger #tiger zinda hai #tiger 3 #salman khan #katrina kaif #bollywood #local gay watches Bollywood.txt #can't believe i actually have to put a tag for Salmon but i told y'all already i would sit through this for my wife Katrina. it's uh #it's not looking good so far #i mean the visuals. at least they kept the classic Tiger visuals but what the f*ck are those lyrics #'flir-ta-ti-ous / con-ta-gi-ous / why sit there / so se-ri-ous' i need to rinse my eardrums out from that bridge tyvm #ok to be fair the line quoted in the post sounds better in Hindi but that's not saying much #i could say 'y'all better get your ass out here and turn it up we about to tear this sh*t up on God' and it would make more sense than that #Salmon still cannot dance. Katrina is dancing twice as hard to make up for it. somehow we ended up in Cappadocia #this year is the year of throwing caution to the wind. it sounded better when Shilpa was singing the line #when i tell you the only good thing about this was Katrina's fits istg i am not lying. cross my heart and hope to die this was torture #the minute they said Pritam was doing the music i should have prepared myself rip #you had such a good beat to work with. for ffs i am asking again what the f*ck are those lyrics #Swag Se Swagat was better than this what are we doing in this year of our Lord (pun not intended) 2023 #edit: is this also the year of most Bollywood songs sounding better in Telugu and Tamil. bc that's what Leke Prabhu Ka Naam is doing rn

[camelspit]

I heard you’re reading the graceling series? Which one are you on and do you like them? I’m on winterkeep (when I eventually get to it)

Im on winterkeep as well! Tbh im not entirely sure how I feel. They just seem really... long? For not much happening. Bitterblues def been my favorite so far! :)

#Theres also just some weird stuff #Like in fire the king idk his name and mila #Why. Why did the author do that. #And i think the series is heading towards a giddon/bitterblue relationship with i dont like too much either #Hes like 8 years older than her and it just feels more like a sibling dynamic ya know? #There are some things i like though!! #Katsa and po are very fun #Absolutely unhinged couple in the best way possible #And saf my beloved <3 complete loser #Love that his grace was slightly hyped up to be some big reveal and then it was like 'lol he can give good dreams' #My least favorite book has def been fire #For one i just. Didnt care much about any of the characters #And after about 300 pages fires problems just became a bit repetitive? If you get what i mean #It got interesting in the last few chapters #But that thing did not have to be like 600 pages #Ig it didnt help that my hopes were high for it #Everything i saw online was like 'omg fire absolitely ripped my heart out' and 'better than the first book' #And maybe its just me but i just? Didnt have much of a reaction to it? #Anyway i would love to know your thoughts on the series! #Im about 60 pages into winterkeep and its fun so far

[lavenderlhymes]

When you get this, please respond with five things that make you happy! Then it send to the last ten people in your notifications (anonymously). You never know who might benefit from spreading positivity. ♡

oh this is so sweet! waking up early enough to watch the sunrise, singing with friends, rereading my favorite book series, when someone remembers what I like/can eat and surprise me with it, and finding songs to add to my dnd character playlists 🥰🥰🥰 thanks so much anon!

#I hope you have such a beautiful day dear #my friends aren’t morning people so they just don’t understand the pure joy of drinking coffee and waking up with the sun #also no one sings with me ever #the only friend that does moved to Cali for his career and we love that he’s releasing his stuff independently #but I miss tf outta that boy #I have to reread acotar at least once a year for feyre #feeling alienated within most groups of people due to dietary restrictions is wild #and I use spotify obsessively specifically for my character playlists #we just love a song that encapsulates them so perfectly it rips your heart out with teeth

[mothheart]

There's this awful woman on tik tok who's entire personality and internet presence consists of demonizing her autistic daughter and doubling down regardless of the sheer volume of autistic people (rightfully) calling her out on her bullshit and I just

#you might know her as the woman who posted the video sayin #'when my autistic daughter ripped all the leaves off my plants that i had gotten to help with my depression' #with her mimicking getting her heart stabbed #because why do anything to accommodate your autistic daughter when you can publicly humilate her #i see comments saying 'youre doing so good mama' i hate you all i hope you burn #also! she makes craaaazy assumptions by calling autistic ppl who call her out 'low needs' while calling THEM ableist #girl could you be any more hypocritical. imagine using ableist terms used to excuse our needs while calling us ableist #anyway. i just feel horrible for her daughter. i hope she makes it out some day and finds a real support system. #tw ableism #ask to tag #miles rambles

[nellycanwrite]

You don’t have to say if you feel it will give to much away but will the triplets all meet Bruno again at the same time or one before the others? Also poor Bruno having to watch his babies grow up from a distance them thinking he left them and him not being able to do anything about it :((((. Anyways that was a word vomit now I want to cry

Don't worry sweetie I wanna cry just thinking about those chapters I'm going to write too😭

Obviously I can't say too much because spoilers, but I can say that one of them might meet him earlier than the others, but that's still up to debate (aka if somehow the chapter writes itself then we CAN see that possibility). There's also some planning on them meeting him later than the rest of the family because of reasons, but we'll just have too see where the keyboard takes me💃👀

Now allow me to mentally and emotionally prepare myself whilst I absolutely rip my heart out for the Bruno-centric chapters because OOOOOOOH BOY am I going to need a shitton of tissues😭 And it's doesn't help that I have to write Bruno's POV during a particular...incident revolving around the triplets.

Also sweetie, don't feel bad about the word vomit! I absolutely love that y'all are going your way to slide into my asks and drop these little questions🥰💝 It really makes my day!

#Thank you so much for dropping by my asks nonniieeee! #it makes me feel super happy that yall are so interested in LMFE to ask questions🥺 #and i hope i dont rip your hearts out omfg #encanto x reader #encanto #bruno madrigal #bruno madrigal x reader #encanto oc #bruno madrigal fankids #lmfe #lmfe updates #nelly answered #lmfe spoilers